The complex machine is widely acknowledged as necessary for making the most advanced chips, an ability with geopolitical implications
Lead equipment engineer Robert Young holds a silicon wafer from a chip-manufacturing machine at the IBM research facility in Albany, N.Y., June 30, 2021. A $150 million chip-making tool from a Dutch company has become a lever in the U.S.-Chinese struggle. It also shows how entrenched the global supply chain is. (Bryan Derballa/The New York Times)
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